CAR CLEAN-UP: Ask Your Representative to Sign the Clean Car Letter Tomorrow, the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists are releasing a report, "Drilling in Detroit," detailing how cars and light trucks can have improved fuel economy to 40 miles per gallon. Now is the perfect time to ask your representative to sign the Clean Car Letter, which calls on President Bush to raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. Higher fuel economy standards can save three million barrels of oil per day -- more oil than is economically recoverable from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Persian Gulf and offshore California combined. Raising CAFE standards will also increase consumer savings at the gas pump and keep nearly 600 million tons of global warming carbon dioxide pollution out of the atmosphere. Send a letter to your representative by going to http://whistler.sierraclub.org:8080/takeaction/globalwarming/index.jsp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]